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Nine members of New York’s Gambino Crime family, ranging from ages from 25 to 70, were sentenced in recent days in Manhattan federal court as part of a wide sweeping indictment that included charges of racketeering, murder, conspiracy, extortion and sex trafficking, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

“The successful prosecutions of Daniel Marino and his cronies dealt a significant blow to the Gambino Family — a ‘family’ that will stop at nothing to wield power, extract illegal profits, and exact revenge against its enemies,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. “But we are far from finished,and our goal of disrupting and dismantling organized crime throughout the City of New York and beyond its borders will continue unabated.”

Those sentenced included Daniel Marino, 70, the reputed boss of the family who “presided over” at least 200 full inducted “made” mobsters and hundreds of associates, authorities said. He was sentenced to five years and ordered to forfeit $1.25 million for conspiracy to murder his nephew, who was cooperating with law enforcement.

Marino admitted giving the green light to kill the nephew Frank Hydell, 31. In 1997, fellow mobsters lured Hydell to a strip club in Staten Island where he was shot three times in the face and back. He died in the parking lot.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara came out with some tough talk after the last two of 14 members and associates of the Gambino Crime Family in New York pleaded guilty Monday in what was regarded as a wide sweeping indictment involving everything from jury tampering, murder, sex and narcotics trafficking and extortion.

“The Gambino Family and their associates continue to use violence, threats, and intimidation to wield power and profit illegally off the backs of their many victims,” Bharara said in a statement. “But the convictions of all 14 individuals charged by this Office just nine months ago has dealt the Gambinos a significant blow.”

“As the result of our prosecution, one of the mafia’s preeminent leaders and many of its rising stars will now serve significant prison sentences.

“We are, however, far from finished with the Gambino Family and will continue working with our law enforcement partners to put their members and associates out of business and behind bars.”

One allegation in the indictment charged that Onofrio Modica, along with other Gambino Crime Family members, had planned to tamper with the jury in the 1992 trial of Godfather John J. Gotti, who was charged with federal racketeering and murder.

Authorities alleged that the men penetrated security measures and located the jury, which was sequestered in a hotel. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the plan was called off after Gotti figured the jury wasn’t going to convict him anyways.